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“Unofficial TGR Survey”-How do you do up your bra?
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I am a chicken winger….sort of feels nice to do it that way and I have no problems. Chicken winger taking it off as well….with one hand to flip the hooks. This has been a great survey Caty
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Thanks Caty for starting a great run of posts. For once I was with the majority.
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I can’t help but wonder – since there are apparently a significant number of us who are challenged when it comes to putting hand behind our backs…
How do the clip and twist girls zip up dresses with a high zip at the back. Even a seasoned chicken winger like myself has been stranded with the zip in a no-person’s zone – too low to reach from above and too high to get at from below.
Are the clip and twist girls all using coathangers or safety pins and ribbons to reach the unreachable?
Perhaps this has the making of another informal survey?
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Dear Amanda and all on TGR.
First up the **** are for we must not be sexist!!!!
An old f……isher “person” like me worked this one out ages ago. I use a nice long length of clear 40lb fishing line. Do the zip up as far as “no person’s land”, then throw the fishing line back over my shoulder to my front.Then hold the dress zip at the base, then pull the line so the zip comes up to it’s correct place at the back of my dress. Tuck the line back into the back of the dress and voila!!! To get out of the dress, just reverse this process.
“Necessity is the mother of invention”. Came up with this one when I had to figure out how the devil to get out of a lovely (bought on sale) Fella Hamilton outfit, without attacking it with a fillet knife…..I also have a “cheap Chinese” evening dress where no matter how I try the zip still gets stuck… So I dont wear that all that often….
Yachties like Amanda may have to use sail mending cotton… Or whatever else you use on sails. Cos I have no idea…..
Let the survey begin….
Caty.
PS I may have to come out of retirement and go into running surveys….
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I’ve, so far, managed to avoid the issue of zips I could not zip up or unzip.
When I started publicly crossdressing in the early 1990s, the classic frocks of the 70s and early 1980s were totally out of fashion, so I had no need to worry about zips on the backs of dresses.
When I bought the gown for last year’s TransFormal, and the LBD for this year’s TransFormal, I made a point of making sure I could fully zip up, and unzip each, without assistance.Jenifur Charne
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The ideas that folk come up with.
Yeah, most of my dresses have back zips which I don’t even bother with; I just slip the whole thing over my head with zip done up, just like slipping on a poncho. I have to wear something of a cover over when the dress is on and I have to apply the makeup. Twas easy last year in Katomba when I had to buy an emergency dress for the Transformal. The sales lady kindly came into the fitting room and did the zip up, but then I hadn’t bought the dress at that momnet. I removed the dress as my traditional method and carried on as normal.
The fishing line sounds to be a solid method. Having a partner who will ‘zip you up’ is preferable.
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I find that if I have to pull the zip up and I can’t reach behind to do it (which is not normally the case) or if the zip is stiff, if I hook a wire coat hanger into the zip handle and use that to pull up the zip. It is a simple step to remove the coat hanger hook from the zip.
Mind you this only works if the zip handle has a hole!
I find slipping the zipped up dress over my head can be problematic if I have my breast forms in if the dress is fitted around the waist.
June
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Having wide shoulders means that off-the-shelf purchases that fit upstairs never are tight at the waist and I can usually slip the lot on over my head with the zip already done up. But as a chicken winger I find that if I do want to zip I can move the zip as far as it will go up with the dress pulled down. Then by hitching the dress up slightly I can reach the zip over my shoulder to finish the job. All this depends, I guess, on not having the dress form fitting made to measure of non-stretch fabric. But I haven’t tried one of those.
